Recent Submissions

The embedding of third sector organisations in the policy world is fraught with tensions.
Accountability and autonomy become oppositional forces causing an uneasy relationship. Government
agencies are concerned that their ...

This paper examines the longer term
outlook for the Canadian financial services
industry and its governance. Attention is
paid to what would happen to the Canadian
financial system and its governance, federal
and ...

Student loan programmes have been the target of a good deal of attention in recent years
and one important set of concerns has focussed on the levels of borrowing and the associated debt
loads. This paper presents the ...

This paper first summarizes the results of an empirical investigation of borrowing and
repayment patterns of post-secondary graduates, then addresses a number of related policy issues,
including i) the need for further ...

Conventional wisdom says that we are on the cusp of a Global Information Society, in
which new technologies will provide citizens with unprecedented access to information. This is an
appealing but flawed vision of the ...

While we know much about poverty (or “low income”) in Canada in a static context, our
understanding of the underlying dynamics remains very limited. This is particularly problematic from
a policy perspective and the ...

Globalization and the knowledge/
information revolution are signalling the
advent of a new societal order, one with
profound and pervasive implications for
citizens, for markets, for governments and,
therefore, for ...

The brain drain debate has been marked by a considerable amount of confusion and
frustration, largely because there has been relatively little hard data available, and that which exists
has often been twisted into very ...

The Cape Breton Development Corporation
need not, should not, be dying in the
way it is. “Devco” has been widely represented
as a failure dragged out too long.
In fact it had for a time considerable
success in a role ...

This paper is a constructivist attempt to understand a global political space where states
as actors (the traditional domain of international relations theory and international law) are joined
by international organizations, ...

As the globalization of knowledge has taken hold over the past decade, and as
governments around the world review their new roles in support of the production of knowledge,
several factors have shaped the context in ...

A correlation between age at immigration and earnings is observed in Canadian census
data. The evidence supports three underlying sources of the effect; first, work experience in the source
country yields virtually no ...